On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Noriyuki Soda wrote:

> 	- Current codeset names are case sensitive, this fact conforms
> 	  to UNIX convention.
> 	  If we will conform to MIME charset names, the names
> 	  must be case sensitive, that isn't what people usually
> 	  expect in UNIX environment.

I am sure you mean case-insenstive above. You're right that people
don't usually expect that, but I fail to see how matching in a
case-insensitive way cause problems with people who use a specific case.

    User 1: Always uses the same case. Case-insensitive matching works.

    User 2: Uses the wrong case. Case-insensitive matching works.

Same result, either way.

> Our current codeset names are fully compatible with both Linux and
> commercial UNIX variants.
> If we would make our codeset names conform to new linux standards,
> the names would be compatible only with Linux, but not with commerical
> UNIX variants.

We would be perfectly compatable, because our system would accept both.

cjs
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